“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Fool me a third time… just who exactly should feel ashamed now?
Last year I wrote here that in 2024, the funding situation was unprecedented. It was genuinely shocking. In twenty five years working in the arts sector here, I had never known anything like it. Organisations entered a new financial year without Letters of Offer from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. No confirmation of funding. No contracts. No clarity about whether they would even meet the threshold to continue operating.
For a sector that had spent decades professionalising governance, compliance and delivery, the situation was extraordinary.
Then 2025 arrived and it happened again…
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